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Is Jesus Lord or Just a Friend?
A Preacher Finds New Faith

By

Calmetta Y. Coleman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 14, 1996 8:26 a.m. ET

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The Rev. Chuck Bell was a longtime preacher of charismatic fundamentalism when he informed his congregation one day that God had called him to a radically different brand of Christianity --Eastern Orthodoxy. Then he announced that God wanted them to join it, too.